The fat man's words caused a burst of cheerful laughter from the brothers at that time, especially the elder Zeng of the artillery regiment, who nodded again and again in agreement with the fat man's words: "Lao Liu is right, the Yangtze River is our inland river in China, and those foreign devil warships are actually rampaging in our inland river, coming and going freely, what is this matter, if you provoke me, our artillery regiment will never swallow your anger." ” At this moment, a burst of artillery suddenly sounded in the Jiangbei position, and Zhou Wu and the others thought that the Kuomintang soldiers on the Jiangyin Fort on the river bank had opened fire on our position, so they hurriedly stopped the military meeting and immediately rushed to various places to prepare for battle.
Soon the news came, it turned out that the burst of artillery just now was not aimed at the Kuomintang troops on the riverbank, but two foreign warships cruising on the Yangtze River were firing at the PLA positions along the river, and the shelling caused the death and wounding of nearly 200 brothers on the forward position, and Shen Lina's health battalion had already rushed to the forward position to rescue the wounded brothers.
Hearing the news, Zhou Wu hurriedly called the headquarters for instructions: "Commander, our forward position on the Jiangyin line was shelled by foreign warships on the river, causing casualties among more than 200 brothers of our troops, should we fight back?"
As soon as Commander Li heard that the PLA's forward positions were shelled by foreign warships on the Yangtze River, it was worth it, the war between the PLA and the Kuomintang army was a civil war, and besides, the Yangtze River was our inland river, and foreign warships had openly shelled our positions With the support of the commander, Zhou Wu immediately gave an order to Zhang Ercheng of the artillery regiment below: "The artillery regiment is ready to fight back, no matter which country's warships are shelling us on the river, we must retaliate with a tooth for a tooth and fight back fiercely."
At the same time, Zhou Wu ordered Huang Shuisheng's naval division to immediately enter the Yangtze River and prepare to carry out a surprise attack on the foreign warships on the river, and the artillery on land and the naval division on the river cooperated with each other to defeat these arrogant and arrogant foreign devil warships, so that they could see that our People's Liberation Army was no match for the Kuomintang soldiers of Lao Chiang When the fat man heard the news, he also became angry, and immediately took out his artillery, and called Zhang Ercheng: "Zhang Ercheng, you also command those artillery pieces of our division, foreign devils are too insulting, after shelling our forward positions, those positions are our first division, we can't suffer in vain, we have to pay the price for those foreign devils."
Zhang Ercheng agreed: "Lao Liu, don't worry, look at me Zhang Ercheng this time, if you don't beat these foreign devil warships to death, I Zhang Ercheng will not be a soldier."
On the Yangtze River, two cruisers with the British "rice flag" were cruising, and on the big warship, a tall man with a swagger said triumphantly to the officers around him: "You see, we shelled their positions, and they didn't react, which shows that the communist army is actually the same as the Kuomintang army, and they are afraid of a head-on conflict with us, haha, Chinese since the Opium War, their backbone has long been smashed by our artillery, there is nothing to be afraid of, The Yangtze River, including the East China Sea, is a place for our warships to navigate freely1" The British officers around him said to the arrogant officer: "Captain Wilson, let's withdraw first, after all, this is a civil war between their Chinese, and our British fleet intervenes in it, I'm afraid it will cause diplomatic problems, and when they are almost done, we will negotiate with the victor to get the greatest benefit for our British Empire." ” When Captain Wilson heard this, he shook his head again and again: "Withdraw, why are we afraid that those mud legs in Jiangbei will come, what can we do if we shell their positions, will they launch a counterattack on us, just their weapons that are similar to burning sticks, and they can also launch a counterattack on our warship, it's a joke."
Just when these foreign devils on the river were triumphant, more than 100 cannons of various calibers under Zhang Ercheng had quickly raised their black hole muzzles, and the dozens of artillery pieces in the fat division's division also raised their muzzles, under Zhang Ercheng's series of shelling orders, those in the artillery regiment who could hit the British warships on the river roared almost at the same time, Zhang Ercheng and the fat man did not know that the roar of these cannons was the first roar that the Chinese dared to send out to the Western powers in more than a hundred years, Since the Opium War, the Western powers have been tyrannical on the land of China, doing whatever they want, and have never encountered resistance, only to swallow their anger and bend their knees and humble themselves All kinds of artillery shells rowed all kinds of ballistics towards the British warships on the river whistling and flying, those foreign devils on the warship never expected this kind of result, they didn't have time to react, the shells had already exploded on the water around the warship, blowing up a large column of water high into the sky, several of the shells hit the deck of the warship, the shock wave of the explosion directly lifted the dozen or so British sailors on the deck high, spun rapidly in mid-air, and then tore apart, Just like dumplings during the Chinese New Year, those British sailors were torn into pieces and fell into the rolling Yangtze River, and they were fed to the fish, and these British sailors did not understand until they died, and they had always been cowardly in their impressions, and even the little Japanese could bully them casually.
It was as if I had gone from heaven to terrible hell all at once.
Captain Wilson hurriedly ordered the ship's guns to return fire, so the four 240-mm guns and more than a dozen 150-mm secondary guns on the cruiser fired at Zhang Ercheng's artillery position on the riverbank, and the British warship behind also joined the shelling.
It turned out that the British warships on the river were fighting against Jiangbei, and the officers below asked the commander of the battery: "Commander, what should we do to fight or not?"
When the director heard this, he shook his head: "Who to beat, these foreign devils have finally encountered hard stubble today, they don't know the fierceness, they think they can bully us Chinese at will, leave them alone, we just watch a good show on the battery, let those foreign devils also taste the bitterness, save them from showing off their might everywhere" Zhang Ercheng saw that the foreign devils on the river actually fired back, and immediately ordered the artillery that had not yet fired in the back: "Give me all the artillery and sink the two foreign devil warships."
Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng's artillery of their division also began to bombard the British warships on the river, this time it can be lively, Zhou Wu's three divisions plus Zhang Ercheng's artillery regiment, a total of more than 200 artillery guns of all kinds have fired at the British warships on the river, although Zhou Wu's cannons are various, the trajectory is different, howitzers are the majority, and even mortars are on the battlefield, but the number is good, a shell smashed over, there are always a few smashed the two British warships, and after a while, the two British warships burst into flames, The black smoke billowed up, covering half of the sky on the river, this time Zhang Ercheng Coke, no need to aim and calculate the direction, just fire at the black smoke for me, this time I can't sink your foreign devil warship, Lao Tzu will not be in this business The shells kept coming, and the arrogant Captain Wilson couldn't bear it, so he hurriedly ordered the cruiser to turn around and dodge, and fled to the mouth of the Yangtze River downstream.
Captain Wells was still unconvinced at this time, and scolded his officers: "Ridiculous, how can our naval officers of the British Empire bow their heads to the Chinese and immediately release smoke bombs, reverse at full speed, and evacuate the mouth of the Yangtze River" At this moment, another row of shells smashed, just near the bridge, and the powerful blast wave lifted Captain Wilson up, and then fell heavily on the hard iron plate, Captain Wilson and a dozen or so British officers around him were lying on the ground crookedly, their flesh and blood blurred, and they couldn't live.
Seeing that a large number of captains and officers had been blown down, the British sailors on the cruiser panicked, and had no idea for a while, like a swarm of headless flies running back and forth on the steaming ship with thick smoke billowing and flames, and some timid sailors and British soldiers threw lifeboats into the river below, ready to abandon ship and jump into the river to escape.
The small British warship behind it had been hit by Zhang Ercheng's cannon and was riddled with holes, smoke was emitting everywhere, the power system was damaged, it couldn't move, and it was lying on the surface of the river and kept spinning, and the British captain hurriedly asked his soldiers to hang out the white flag and surrender to the People's Liberation Army on the other side of the river On Zhang Ercheng's artillery position, the brothers who were in charge of observation found a white flag rising from the mast of the British warship, and hurriedly reported to Zhang Ercheng: "Regiment commander, the foreign devil has raised the white flag."
Zhang Ercheng hurriedly looked in the direction of his brothers' fingers, and sure enough, through the smoke and fire that filled the river, he saw that on the small warship behind, a white flag restructured from white pants was flying high on the mast, and it seemed that the foreign devils couldn't hold it anymore and were about to surrender t1706231537: